. . .(c) Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and
extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark. Or,
to put it negatively, the apologetic arguments which
suppose the ‘days’ of creation to be long eras of time, the figures of years not
to be chronological, and the flood to be a merely local Mesopotamian flood,
are not taken seriously by any such professors, as far as I know.”
Letter to David Watson from James
Barr, 1984